Directions : Read the following information carefully and answer the questions…
2019
Directions : Read the following information carefully and answer the questions given below it.
Eight persons R@, R#, R$, R&, R%, R*, R© and RΩ are sitting around a hollow circular table such that R&, R$, R# and RΩ sit on the inner side of the table and the rest are sitting on the outer side of the circular table and they all are facing away from the center. The persons sitting on the inner side of the circular table are sitting just behind the persons sitting on the outer side of the circular table and all are graduated from different universities i.e. HTS, UGI, LPU, HNB, KPJ, UPI, NIT and FPT. All the information is not necessarily in the same order.
The one who is graduated from KPJ sits just behind the one who sits second to the left of the one who is graduated from UPI. RΩ sits just behind the R*. R% who is graduated from UGI sits opposite to the one who sits at the immediate left of R©. R& is not graduated from FPT. The one who is graduated from HTS sits at the immediate left of the one who is graduated from LPU. The one who is graduated from KPJ sits just behind the R©. RΩ sits at the immediate right of R&. The persons who are graduated from FPT and HNB are sitting on the same table and sit opposite to each other. R& sits just behind the one who is graduated from UGI. R$ is not graduated from FPT.
Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and hence form a group, which of the following does not belong to the group?
- A.
R%
- B.
R©
- C.
R*
- D.
RΩ
- E.
R@
Show answer & explanation
Correct answer: D
Concept
In an "odd one out" classification, four of the five listed items share one common defining property and the fifth lacks it. The task is to identify that single shared property and then find the one element that does not satisfy it. In this two-row seating set-up the most natural classifying property is the side of the table on which a person sits: every person is seated either on the inner side or on the outer side of the hollow circular table.
Application
From the directions, the persons seated on the inner side of the table are R&, R$, R# and RΩ, while the remaining persons R@, R%, R* and R© are seated on the outer side. Now classify each of the five listed names by the side it sits on:
Person | Side of table |
|---|---|
R% | Outer |
R© | Outer |
R* | Outer |
R@ | Outer |
RΩ | Inner |
Four of the five names — R%, R©, R* and R@ — sit on the outer side of the table, so they share the common property that defines the group. RΩ is the only one of the five seated on the inner side, so RΩ does not share that property.
Cross-check
Verify against the inner-side list given in the directions: the inner side holds R&, R$, R# and RΩ. Of the five names offered, only RΩ appears in that inner-side list; the other four appear on the outer side. This independently confirms that RΩ is the element that breaks the common pattern.
Therefore the name that does not belong to the group is RΩ.